Extension-table.



No. 674,420. k Patented May 2|, 190|. W. KOPP.

EXTENSION TABLE.

(Application led Sept. 27t 1900.)

(No Model.)

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WILLIAM KOPP, 0F LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

EXTENSION-TAB LE.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 674,420, dated May 21, 1901.

Application filed September 27, 1900. Serial No. 31.305. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM KOPP, a citizen of the United States,residing at Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Extension-Tables, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in providing a simple, effective, and durable extension-table having an extension leaf or leaves arranged to be folded under the 'rop proper of the table; further, in providing such leaf or leaves with supports adapted to fold under the leaf, and, further, in the parts and in the construction, arrangement, and combinations of parts hereinafter more fnll \v described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a plan View of my improved device shown in extended relation with part of the top broken away for better illustration of the parts. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same with a top-section and leaves shown in assumed positons in dotted lines. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of part of the table, showing the parts in extended relation and the top-section and leaves shown in section on aline corresponding to the line am: of Fig. l. Fig. Liis a longitudinal section of part of a topsection and leaf, showing the supports for the same. Fig. 5 is a bottom View showinga detail of a support and its connection with the top. Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the support; and Fig. 7 is a detail in section on the line o fu, Fig. 3.

VA represents the table-top sections, to each of which a leaf B is preferably attached by means of hinges F.

D represents the side rails of the legs, and L the end rails.

'the table, H

The top-sections A are hinged at each end v of the table by means of hinges I to the legs H or, if desired, to the end rails L, one section at each end of the table.

T he table proper is preferably divided into two parts M M. These two parts of the table are connected by a slide C, sliding on ways N, secured to the side rails. The outward movement of the slide may be arrested by pins or stops o d, attached, respectively, to the slide and side rail.

The table-top and leaf are preferably of the same thickness. The side rails D are provided With depressions O, preferably of a size corresponding to the thickness and width of the leaf or leaves. The upper edge of the slide is located The thickness of the leaf or leaves below the plane of the lower side of the tabletop for reasons to be hereinafter explained. The leaves may be provided with supports Gr, pivoted to the leaves and top-section and taking into recesses F.. The supports are pivoted upon pins J, which take into channels K, wherein they are held in place by staples c. The supports are adapted to rest u pon the top of the slide when the table is extended and the leaf turned up. The supports preferably swing loosely, so that they may always depend when opening or closing the leaf by gravity into vertical position until forced into their recesses by the closing of the leaf upon the topsection, so as to permit the supports to automatically take into oremerge from their recessesWhen closing and opening the table, respectively. The top of the support is preferably rounded, and when the leaf is in unfold ed position ready for use its rounded end g rests against the upper edge of the recess E, so that the leaf is supported by support G, resting With the lower end on the top of the slide and the upper end taking against the top of the'recess. (See Fig. 3.)

I have shown but one leaf hinged to each top-section; but it is obvious that a numben to make the table of any desired length, and

when more leaves are used the depression O may be correspondingly deepened, the slide C correspondingly lowered, and the supports G correspondingly lengthened to conform to the additional combined thickness of the leaves when folded under the top-section.

The mode of operation and action of the parts is as follows: The table is normally in closed positionthat is to say, with the inner ends of the top-sections A and the rails'D meeting at the middle of table. If it is desired to extend the table, the two end parts of the table are pulled away from each other, the slide C spanning the space thus made. When the table is in closed position, the leaf B at each end of the .table will be folded under and against the top-section, with the supports G folded into the recesses E. The free end of the table-top section is next raised, so

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that the top will swing upon its hinges I, and the leaf is unfolded upon hinges F away from the under side of the table-top. This action frees the supports, and they naturally depend from their pivots, their free ends coming out of recesses E. This operation and action is more clearly illustrated in dotted lines in Fig. 2. The top-section and leaf are then still further unfolded and brought down to a horizontal position, so that their upper sides may form a plane .and continuous top for the table. (See Figs. 1, 2, and 3.)

In my improved construction the slides supporting the table-leaves are near the extreme ends of the leaves, so as to furnish support near theirends and to prevent tipping of The leaves, making it unnecessary to use dowels, as in the ordinary constructions of extensiontables where removable leaves are used, although it is of course obvious that dowels may be used at the meeting-point of the inner edges of the leavesin my construction, if desired. In my construction, also, the tabletop sections and the leaves are hinged with relation to each other and the table-frame to prevent sidewise motion or play or tipping sidewise of any part with relation to the frame, making it a substantial, simple, and economical construction, easily operated, free from complication, and one in which the leaves are always ready for immediate use by simply turning the same from under the table-top.

I claimv l. In an extension-table, the combination with a table-frame, of a top-section hinged thereto and adapted to be raised and lowered, a leaf hinged to the top-section and adapted to be raised therewith and to fold thereunder on the table-frame, and a support pivoted to the leaf at its under surface and arranged and adapted to automatically fold or close when the leaf is folded under the top-section and to remain in downwardly-extended position and rest on the .table-frame and sustain the leaf when the latter is extended.

2. In an extension-table, the combination with a table-frame, of a top-section hinged thereto and adapted to be raised and lowered, a leaf hinged to the top-section and adapted to be raised therewith and to fold thereunder, and a support pivoted to the leaf at its under surface which swings freely on its pivotal connection and depends freely by its own gravity, said support being arranged and adapted to fold or close when the leaf is folded under the top-section and to automatically unfold and assume vertical position when the leaf is opened out into extended position and to rest on the frame and support said leaf.

3. In an extension-table, the combination with a table-frame, of a top-section hinged thereto and adapted to be raised and lowered, a leaf hinged to the top-section and adapted to be raised therewith and to fold thereunder, said leaf being provided with a recess in its under surface, and a support pivoted to the leaf and swinging freely on its pivotal connection and depending by its own gravity,said support being arranged and adapted to fold or close into the recess when the leaf is folded under the top-section and to automatically unfold andassume vertical position when the leaf is opened out into extended position and to rest on the frame and support said leaf.

4. In an extension-table, the combination with a table-frame, of a top-section hinged to `the frame with its outer end overhanging or extending laterally beyond the frame and adapted to swing down wardly when the inner end is raised, of a top-section hinged thereto and adapted to be raised and lowered, a leaf hinged to the top-section and adapted to be raised therewith and to fold thereunder, and a support pivoted to the leaf under the same and arranged and adapted to automatically fold or close iwhen the leafis folded under the top-section and to remain in downwardlyextended position and rest on the table-frame and sustain the leaf when the latter is eX- tended.

5. In an extension-table, the combination of ltable-sections M M', slides between the same, stops @,d, top-sections A hinged respectively to the sections M M and provided with recesses E, leaves B B hinged respectively to the sections A, A, and having recesses E, pivoted supports G arranged to swing upon their pivots on the part to which they are directly attached and, to be raised bodily from the slides to fold into the recesses E by gravityfwhen folding the leaves upon the sections and to depend therefrom by gravity and rest upon the slides when extending the table, substantially as described.

6. In an extension-table, the combination of table-sections M M', top-sections A A hinged to the sections M M and provided with recessesE,slid es between the top-sections, stops c d, leaves B B hinged to the top-sections, and having recesses E, supports G pivoted to thesections AA and leaves B B,with the pivots therefor at the ends of the recesses and of the supports nearest the hinged joint between the top-section and the leaf, and constructed and arranged for having the supports to automatically take or fold into the recesses by gravity when folding the leaf upon the top-section for closing the table and to automatically depend from the recesses by gravity when unfolding the leaf from the top-section so as to depend perpendieularly therefrom and rest upon the slides when the leaf and top-section are lowered for extendin g the table, substantially as described.

7. In an extension-table, the combination with a table-frame, of a top-section hinged thereto and adapted to be raised and lowered, a leaf hinged to the table-section and adapted to be raised therewith and to fold thereunder on the table-frame,one of said hinged members being provided with a recess in its under face, and a support pivoted to the under surface -of one of said hinged members which is ar- IOO IIO

ranged and adapted to automatically fold or I In testimony whereof I have signed 'my close imo the Peeess When the leaf is folded naine hereto in thepresenoe of two subscribunder the table-section and to' remain in ing Witnesses.

downwardly-extending position and rest on WILLIAM KOPP. the table-frame and sustain the hinged lnem- Witnesses: bers when they are extended in relation to ERNEST G. SIMON,

each other. 4 HERBERT F. HARDEN. 

